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I recently caught up on the show Elementary, a modern-day Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and it raises a number of concerning questions about its worldbuilding and alternate history for me. The show is set

You are probably familiar, as someone reading this English-langauge text, with the Latin alphabet. But perhaps you are less familiar with all the letters that aren't in the Latin alphabet, but could be.

In 1486, Heinrich Kramer, a Dominican monk and Inquisitor, published the famous witch hunters manual, Malleus Maleficarum. The text enumerates theological arguments for the existence of witchcraft, and devotes pages to the ins